Introducing Google Docs & Slides
Just the Basics to Get you Started
What You Need to Know about Docs
- Word processing, similar to Microsoft Word
- Accessible anywhere and anytime in any browser
- Available on mobile devices
- Collaborate with others in real time
- Autosaves
- Revision History
- You can convert existing Word documents to Google format for editing
- You can download Google Docs as Word documents and PDFs
What You Need to Know about Slides
- Presentation tool, similar to PowerPoint
- Accessible anywhere and anytime in any browser
- Available on mobile devices
- Collaborate with others in real time
- Autosaves
- Revision History
- You can convert existing PowerPoints to Google Slides for formatting
- You can download Google Slides as PowerPoints, PDFs, and Picture files
Sharing and Collaborating with Google Docs and Slides
All About Sharing
- Two Types of Settings: Visibility (Who can access the document and how they access it) and Sharing (What they can do with the document)
- Visibility - private (default), public on the web, people at my organization, people at my organization with the link, anyone with the link, or specific, "invited" viewers and collaborators
- Sharing - edit, comment, view
Collaborating on a document
- Real-time collaboration - You can see who is editing and what they are doing
- Chat within the document
- Insert comments
- Invite collaborators
- Revision history